Alex will continue the story on my behalf. Go ahead Alex. Make my day.

Please see Chapter 2 for the disclaimer thingy.

Alex

Laura's lack of work ethic really bothered me. Unlike me who passed because of hard work she seemed to just be naturally smart. Maybe this was just the world's idea of a joke. Make those that wanted to do well work hard for it and gift those that did not care with the ability to do well with minimal effort. So unfair.

I leaned back on my chair, and watched the clock as it counted the seconds go past. My PC was also making a noise, almost like the two were having some sort of argument. I pulled my glasses off and rubbed my eyes. I was defiantly too tired to continue to study if thoughts like that were allowed to pass through my mind unhindered. Enough studying, I doubt I could be any more ready for the exams tomorrow anyways. I picked up my jacket from where it was lying on the bed and decided to head over to Laura's. Just to make sure she was actually studying my brain says. "Liar" says a smaller voice from the back, which I ignore.

I knock on the door and am not surprised to see that Jessica opens the door to let me in. "She studying?" I ask. She closes the door behind me.

"Apparently, she locked the door a few hours ago and she's been silent ever since."

Jessica and Laura lived in a small apartment above a Pizza place. The smell as always drifted through the air making me hungry although I had just eaten supper before leaving home. It was a nice apartment with a nice view, the rent had been very low after the place was deemed haunted and cursed after a series of disappearances. Physically it was simply just another small apartment equipped with the basic essentials. TV, couch and a small Kitchenette area with two bedrooms and a bathroom.

Jake was on the couch a movie paused on the screen. "You're watching a movie the day before exams?" I was not surprised though. I seriously doubted he had only been here since the start of the movie.

"Yeah, I'm ready for the exams dude. I've got this." He sounds like he's trying to convince himself but I return the double thumbs up none the less. He has always been the sporty type. Always pulling through by the skin of his teeth. I make my way over to knock on Laura's door.

Before I can though the door opens and Laura walks out. "Well hello. I thought you had been studying what would you be doing here?"

"Checking up, I was sure none of you were studying. Seems I was right." I say and my eyes flick to her hair. She catches my glance and attempts to straighten it with her fingers.

"I have been studying though, that's why I needed the nap" I highly doubt it but I let it pass.

"Well since you are all here shall we do something? There's a pack of cards around here somewhere." Jessica looks around but doesn't spot them.

"Sounds like fun." Laura jumps in quickly and walks back into her room returning with the pack of cards.

"Might as well. The last game of the damned" Grins Jake. I roll my eyes but join them in pulling up a chair, the couch is a three Seater which means one of us has to pull the chair over.

"So, Poker. Loser buys lunch?" Suggests Jessica. The rest mumble their assent and the game begins. The games starts quite equally but soon turns heavily in favor of Myself. The stakes are low but I cannot help but count cards. Laura is counting too but having nothing to win she is playing very laid back. The obvious loser however is Jake who I suspect lost chips to Jessica many times on purpose. It won't matter to him if he lost. His family is quite well off.

"Looks like Jake is going buy us lunch then." I pushed my glasses back up my nose and smile as I collect his last few chips from the pot.

"As predicted to be fair" Laura stands, "Thirsty?" And fetches a round of Juice.

"It's getting late. We had best get some rest before tomorrow." I stand and Jake does too, Much to Jessica's dismay.

"I'm not going to do as well as Alex but I still need to Pass." He says and gives her a kiss on the forehead. As we head towards the door the lights flash and suddenly go out.

"Power outage? Now what would have caused that?" Jake wonders. All of us pull out or phones to provide some light and I approach the windows.

"The neighbors are out too, here I though you had forgotten to pay your bills." I smile in the dark "Sorry girls, looks like you're out of power for the night."

It does not take much for Jake to be convinced to stay. And I fall not too long after. "We can't get home in the dark anyhow."

"Yeah, oh yeah. Alex...

"Shotgun the couch" I say and take my place on it.

"Damn." I can just imagine his palm covering his forehead right now. "I can't get any signal at the moment." He pulls out another mattress that we usually use when we stay over here.

We glance at our phones and confirm that our network coverage was down too.

Usually we would pull the mattresses off the girls beds too but as we had exams tomorrow so we decided to actually get to sleep. That idea didn't last however as about an hour later there was an extremely loud bang and both the girls ran into the room. I'm not going to lie I was seriously scared. Looking outside there seemed to have been no difference. It took a while for us to calm down. Once we had calmed down and as nothing seemed to be wrong we decided to go back to sleep. The girls did insist on bringing through their mattresses and a short while later we were all asleep.

There. More words. You happy now? Well things are going to hopefully become more interesting soon. I decided giving you a background on the characters was important. I shall promise I will write about as many words as this for next week. Please let me know what you guys think but following, favoriting or posting the first word that comes to mind in the comments. See ya next time! :D